Jiang's second-smallest alpha invariant conjecture for K-semistable Fano manifolds

Let XX be a K-semistable Fano manifold of dimension nn, and let α(X)\alpha(X) denote its alpha invariant.

Jiang's conjecture. α(X)<1n\alpha(X)<\frac{1}{n} if and only if XPnX\cong \mathbb{P}^n.

This conjecture asks whether projective space is the unique K-semistable Fano manifold whose alpha invariant lies below 1n\frac{1}{n}. It concerns the gap between the sharp general lower bound α(X)1n+1\alpha(X)\geq \frac{1}{n+1} and the next possible alpha invariant; the paper's construction of examples with alpha invariant 22n+1\frac{2}{2n+1} addresses the related question of whether values strictly between 1n+1\frac{1}{n+1} and 1n\frac{1}{n} occur.

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Jihao Liu and Ziwen Zhu, “K-polystable toric Fano varieties with small alpha invariants”, arXiv:2607.04005 (2026).

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